Dont use the word 'scared' around me or Ill hunt ya down .... JK

Its not being 'scared' as such, its being curious and sensible regarding this topic.
The guy stating the warning is apparently the 2nd or 3rd highest ranking terrorist leader there. I wouldn't take is lightly.

Better safe than sorry.

BTW: I used to live in Fiji until not so long ago. Id go back in a shot. Though Im a Kiwi I still miss it a lot.

NOOOOO! Everyone should stay home, dig a pit, and hide - preferably while reading poorly xeroxed religious literature

Bigfoot wrote:NOOOOO! Everyone should stay home, dig a pit, and hide - preferably while reading poorly xeroxed religious literature

thats my favourite kind!

Can't we play most of these sports on the Wii? No need to go anywhere.
Send out for a curry and we can still call it the indian games.

The Middle East!?

Henry Dorset Case wrote:Fuckin' A we should go. We shouldn't send any athletes though. We'll just send Willia Apiata and presently there will be no more terrorists.

I concur. Send in Willi Apiata with a spoon. When he bends it with his mind, the terrorists will either run like little girls or their heads will explode at the thought of what is about to happen to them

One plan mooted by the Aussies is to fly athletes in for the 2 days prior their event, then out. It means significantly fewer athletes to worry about at any time.

That's if Aussie go, they're murmuring about pulling out, partly in political retaliation for the bad press India is giving them on the whole racism thing (deservedly).

GB has also mentioned pulling out altogether, and the whole track programme is in Manchester anyway, so I guess they'll still get more medals than us without even leaving home.

All those flights means more trips of Aussies moving to and from the airport, meaning more opportunities for terrorism. Probably safer to move 'em all in in one well protected bunch, keep them safely tucked up in the athletes village for the duration, then move them back out again.

Or, just don't go at all. It's not worth risking peoples lives just to go play some games.

happybaboon wrote:All those flights means more trips of Aussies moving to and from the airport, meaning more opportunities for terrorism. Probably safer to move 'em all in in one well protected bunch, keep them safely tucked up in the athletes village for the duration, then move them back out again.

Or, just don't go at all. It's not worth risking peoples lives just to go play some games.

Oh hai - I'm GI Babs, and I have a security and risk management plan for all youse in da middle east.

There probably isn't any reason to be a jerk about it musket.

happybaboon wrote:India is surrounded by a whole lot of durkas. So whatever region it's in, same difference - they gave a huge international event to a country surrounded by/populated with a whole lot of middle eastey terrorist types.

No?

OK OK ....

we'll see when, for instance, the black sticks go charging over there, get wasted by some smacktard suicide bomber..

Sorry but Ima gonna bump teh thread

happybaboon wrote:There probably isn't any reason to be a jerk about it musket.

Come on, if it had been someone else who said it you'd be mocking them mercilessly too!

Oli wrote:Security guards in a bus are fuck all use if the bus gets RPGed or otherwise blown up. Not sure about the answer to the original question though...

When I was in Peru our bus got attacked (yep, they know me over there too ).
It was workers protesting (so not political necessarily).
They stopped the traffic and then threw rocks at the bus and cars. It was pretty frightening but thankfully no windows broken etc (as we crouched on the floor) and we were able to drive away in a short time.

Buses are very vulnerable

[quote="musket"]One plan mooted by the Aussies is to fly athletes in for the 2 days prior their event, then out. It means significantly fewer athletes to worry about at any time.

That's if Aussie go, they're murmuring about pulling out, partly in political retaliation for the bad press India is giving them on the whole racism thing (deservedly).

Apparently there is going to be a new sport introduced. It's called the Park Run TT. It's an evening event. One at a time the runners have to sprint through a park at night...the Aussies are up first